Mr. Wbstwood o« the Family Fulgoridee. 137 



Forehead with elevated central carinse .... Phenax. 



(^Eumallia, Gu^r.) 

 b. Front of the head rostrated Fulgora. 



The last-named genus is thus made to comprise not only the old species 

 F. Laternaria, Candelaria, and their allies, but also F. recurva, tuba, and tuher- 

 culata, together with Flata hcemoptera of Perty ; in which last two species the 

 head cannot be said to be rostrated, and in the first two the rostrum is small 

 and recurved, and the second joint of the antennae oval, whence they ought 

 not to be separated from Aphana discolor, fuscata, &c. ; although from the 

 general habit of the insects, and even the colouring of the wings, F. re- 

 curva and its allies as well as Jf^. platyrhina are perhaps too closely related to 

 F. diadema to warrant their absolute removal from the genus. The species, 

 however, are so closely connected together that it is impossible to draw the 

 line of distinction. Germar has also, in a memoir upon this tribe of insects, 

 published in the fourth number of Silbermann's Revue Entomologique, sepa- 

 rated Fulgora europoea, hyalinata, fenestrata, &c. under the generic name of 

 Dictyophora, with the character, " Elytra apice reticulata, clypeus oblongo- 

 ovatus, caput conico-elevatum." In consequence of this generic name being 

 previously employed, Dr. Burmeister has changed it in the second volume of 

 his " Handbuch," p. 159, to Pseudaphana. 



As restricted above, the genus Fulgora may be thus characterized : 



Corpus oblongum, subdepressum. Caput fronte in rostrum vel tubulum plus 

 miniisve elongatum, porrectum, (nee recurvum,) producta ; nee conico- 

 elevatum. Antennae articulo 2ndo globoso, hemispherico, granuloso, seta 

 e medio ejus apicis exeunte, articulo minutissimo ad basin setae. Ocelli 2 

 inter oculos et antennas vel potius paullb ante antennas positi. Promuscis 

 3-articulata, ad usque vel ultra basin pedum posticorum extensa. Cly- 

 peus trigonus basi truncatus. Labrum apice acutum. Prothoracis dor- 

 sum mesothorace paull6 minus, posticfe subemarginatum. Hemelytra alis 

 minora, latitudine mult5 longiora, apice crebr^ venosa et reticulata. 



Species 1 . Fulgora Laternaria. 

 F. capita porrecto, ovato, thorace majori, longitudine vix ej,us latitudinem 



